62 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1908. 



International Maritime Exposition^ Bordeaux, France. — ^This ex- 

 position, Avliich was also oflicially opened before the close of the 

 previous fiscal year, was likewise described in the last annual report. 

 Of the $15,000 appropriated by Congress only about $8,000 was avail- 

 able for the preparation, installation, and maintenance of the entire 

 government exhibit, which, at the request of the Secretary of State, 

 was undertaken by the Smithsonian Institution and placed in charge 

 of Mr. AV. de C. Havenel. Owing to delays on the part of this Gov- 

 ernment, the United States pavilion was not completed and turned 

 over to Mr. D. I. Murphy, American consul at Bordeaux, until late 

 in June, but by expeditious methods it was made possible to admit 

 the 23iiblic on July -1, although the installation was not finished until 

 the 20tli of that month. The exposition remained open until Novem- 

 ber 10, Avhen the work of repacking the collection was immediately 

 begun under the direction of Mr. F. C. Cole, of the ^Museum staff, who 

 had assisted Mr. Eavenel in its installation. The shipment reached 

 Washington in January, 1008, and the articles contributed by the 

 several government dej^artments were returned to them. A number 

 of objects which had been exhibited by other participants were 

 secured for the Museum. 



Alaska-Yuhon-Pacific Exi)osition. — To enable the Government to 

 particiiDate in this exposition, which will be held in Seattle, Wash- 

 ington, in 1909, the sum of $600,000 was appropriated in the sundry 

 civil act, approved May 27, 1908. Of this amount $200,000 was 

 allotted for exhibition purposes, under the direction of a board of 

 management to be appointed by the President, composed of three 

 l^ersons now in the emplo}^ of the Government. Although the board 

 was not constituted until after the close of the vear, it mav be men- 

 tioned here that ]Mr. Ravenel, Administrative Assistant of the 

 Museum, has been designated as one of its members. The part spe- 

 cifically directed to be taken by the Smithsonian Institution and 

 National Museum consists in the exhibition of " such articles and 

 material of an historical nature as will impart a knowledge of our 

 national history, especially that of Alaska, Hawaii, and the Philip- 

 pine Islands, and that part of the United States west of the Rocky 

 Mountains." 



ORGAXIZATIOX AXD STAFF. ■ 



The only change in the matter of organization was made in the 

 department of geolog}', where three divisions, corresponding with 

 former sections, were substituted for the division of stratigraphic 

 paleontolog}'. They are as follows: Division of invertebrate paleon- 

 tolog^^ with Dr. R. S. Bassler as curator; division of vertebrate 

 paleontology, with Mr. James W. Gidley as custodian of the mam- 

 malian collection, and Mr. Charles W. Gilmore custodian of the 



